Creating a virtual wireless network on Windows 8

Nov 25, 2013, 11:33 AM -06:00

I
was wanting to create an ad-hoc network on a Windows 8 system, but discovered
the “Create an ad hoc network” feature available on prior Windows OS systems is
not available on Windows 8. However, I found in Window 8 you can use the
Network Shell (netsh) utility to create a virtual wireless network (WLAN).

First
you need to verify your network interface supports virtualization. Open a
command prompt (with administrative privileges) and run “netsh wlan show
drivers” – look to see if “Hosted network supported” is “Yes”

Enter
the following command to configure the wireless network “netsh wlan set
hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=<name> key=<password>